jghist

There definitely was a community named Mount Houston. It even had a post office, 1910-1918. Inasmuch as the founding postmaster Aquilla Standiford, who applied to the post office for that name, was from Indiana and went back to Indiana the very next year never to return to Texas, it is quite possible/probable that he named it in jest (perhaps in reference to the 15-foot "mountainous" elevations in the area shown on the topographical map posted earlier).